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The spirit of the sea; sea devil; -- a term used by sailors. This same Davy Jones, according to the mythology of sailors, is the fiend that presides over all the evil spirits of the deep, and is seen in various shapes warning the devoted wretch of death and woe. Smollett. Davy Jones's Locker, the ocean, or bottom of th…

According to strictness (of etiquette, rule, or the like); obligatory; strictly required.

ut. The lion of England and the lilies of France without the baton sinister, under which, according to the laws of heraldry, they where debruised in token of his illegitimate birth. Macaulay.

According to the English notation, a million involved to the tenth power, or a unit with sixty ciphers annexed; according to the French and American notation, a thousand involved to the eleventh power, or a unit with thirty-three ciphers annexed. [See the Note under Numeration.]

Inflection of nouns, adjectives, etc., according to the grammatical cases.

, to define a word, a phrase, or a scientific term. They define virtue to be life ordered according to nature. Robynson (More's Utopia).

egan to gain ground in Italy, that third cousins might marry, being in the seventh degree according to the civil law. Hallam.

to renown by life or death. Shak. They answered . . . that they should demean themselves according to their instructions. Clarendon.

According to the Gnostics, an agent or one employed by the Supreme Being to create the material universe and man.

The operation of deducing one function from another according to some fixed law, called the law of derivation, as the of differentiation or of integration.

in which each term is numerically smaller than the preceding one; also, a series arranged according to descending powers of a quantity.

ishment justly due; claim to recompense, usually in a good sense; right to reward; merit. According to their deserts will I judge them. Ezek. vii. 27. Andronicus, surnamed Pius For many good and great deserts to Rome. Shak. His reputation falls far below his desert. A. Hamilton.

According to desert (whether good or evil); justly.

To discriminate; to separate according to specific signification or qualities; to specificate; to desynonymize. [R.] Inaptitude and ineptitude have been usefully despecificated. Fitzed. Hall.

The sum of a series of products of several numbers, these products being formed according to certain specified laws; thus, the determinant of the nine numbers. a, b, c,a', b', c',a'\'b7, b'\'b7, c'\'b7, is a b' c'\'b7 -- a b'\'b7 c' + a' b'\'b7 c] -- a' b c'\'b7 + a'\'b7 b' c. The determinant is written by placing the…

ometimes having the glass silvered to prevent absorption of radiant heat; -- called also, according to the particular shape, Dewar bulb, Dewar tube, etc.

s, whether these arise from accident or error, or from those necessary limitations which, according to this philosopher, originate in the constitution of the human intellect.

In the manner of, or according to, diamagnetism.

One celebrated upon the completion of sixty, or, according to some, seventy-five, years from the beginning of the thing commemorated.

To eat according to prescribed rules; to ear sparingly; as, the doctor says he must diet.